u k. because the soviet union was disintegrating and they needed a new generation of intelligence officer to investigate terrorist. and that's what i thought i was signing up to do. the recruitment processes about 10 months my case, it can go between 6 to a year in terms of recruitment. and i was reassured, every time i got through, i didn't think i was the right person to this job. and every time i still kept getting through and i thought by the end of it, i was quite reassured, and that it would be a good job to do and make a difference and potentially have life actually. i mean, it sounds idealistic, but that's what i want to do. so that's why i joined in terms of the things i saw, an inside my 1st disillusionment was the fact that i was posted to the red under the bed section, which was known as at to where they were still looking at political from versus political activists. that social and we saw huge number of us when i say we my and my former partner david shader became the primary with simpler in 1997 for a huge number of files held not just on regular u k. systems, but also peop

u. k. as says it's obscene and he says it's an insult to working families that point very big here in the u. k . because of our whole sways, of disputes over pay in the public sector on wednesday was the biggest str in 10 years. and so people are wanting to know why more money isn't directed at the public sector increases in pay than it or is it in terms of the, a taxation of a very large profits or in the industry at there is also a call or for the european union or to be more effective with it's when full taxes . there aren't so many loopholes with the e u taxes, but nevertheless, there is us a real, a snowballing resistance to all of this. and a real feeling that the energy companies should pay their way at with jackson and her simmons outside shells, headquarters and london and her thank you. pope francis as address tens of thousands of young people in democratic republic of congo. the pontiff spoken to stadium. it's the 1st people visit the country and more than 37 years. it follows a mass attended by thousands on wednesday. mark on webs got more for us from kinshasa, what's been happening markham,

u. k, because of course the moment here we have finished disagreements. so it's an agreement and principal at the moment it's implemented, i am happy to start immediately right now the work on an association agreement which is the precondition to join a horizon europe. so good news for all those who are working in research and science. i think i'd also just add to that there's a, there's a range of different areas for we can cooperate productively on the present. and i started that work when we 1st met. but if you look at how we've responded to the situation in ukraine, that's required which the president is, and we work very closely together on that. also energy security more broadly, given the interconnected nature of our energy markets. climate change is another area and indeed illegal migration. these are all the types of things that we can continue to make good progress on working together to the benefit of all of our communities that we represent. i look forward to doing that with the president on the line as well. good. thank you very much for your

u. k. homeless. because he believe that's a possible conflict with super food or climate killer a, those and blueberries, from south america as global demand growth, this thirsty produce is causing droughts and water shortages where it's being cultivated. people are fighting over every drop. what's the actual price of these much hyped? super food in 45 minutes on w o. we're all set to go beyond p obvious. we as we take on the world 8 hours, i do all the scans. we're all about the stories that matter to you. whatever it takes time, policeman follow with you. we are is actually on fire made for mines. some of the worst violence in years is broken out between israelis and palestinians at its height last week of palestinian attack. outside the synagogue left 7 people dead unprovoked white spread condemnation, including from the arab world. a day earlier, israeli forces had rated the janine refugee camp and they occupied.

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i lost my home in 2014 in vineyards because 14 in his army occupied it to my home town. i lost my home for the 2nd time this month in k u because rush in the army. i take to, oh great. you all know this war. it's not about you crazy, right? you all know that this war is a case whole. you know, i'm asking you to make pressure on your apartment, not use russia. guess police were all was home and they really want my life back with . i don't know what will the threat of off it say, how long will the school long exam lisa years of my life for them and yeah, and jason of each 131 and now to basic. and i feel like for the next 10 or 20 years, i'll either be running away from this war or i'll be fighting it's a boiler, some a hot shows it'll be my life will just passed by this way. for that. no, we're should john. hey, this is vicky with vicky. ah, these places in europe are smashing the records step into a bold adventure. it's the treasure map for modern globetrotters. discover some of you up to record breaking sites on your back, youtube and now also in book form. the music security conference 2023. this year's meeting is tas

u. k. prime minister. that because let's not forget, they fallen for that one before having a they were seduced by forest. johnson's promises a few years ago when the northern private nor the non protocol was actually conjured up. and boris johnson promised the d u p. that they would be no border checks between the u. k. and northern ireland. of course they were. so i think that the p o, in kind of american pilots, lawyer ring up at the moment they are getting their legal representatives ready to go through that deal line by line because they don't want to make the stay mistake again the have made before. so they will be looking at this deal in detail. we can hear now from the leader a, d, b jeffrey donaldson. he was spoken to just a few moments ago and here's what he had to say about it. i haven't seen it yet. so once we've seen the legal tax will come to you or do you feel positive? well, no, the positive or negative. i think that we need to take time to look at the data. what's available? how does not match our 7 te

because my guess this week is that of the palestinian mission to the u. k. persons, i'm not because he believes that's possible. conflict with d w. m. what secrets lie behind these walls discovered new adventures in 360 degrees. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. d w world heritage 360. get out now. b. o. some of the worst violence in years is broken out between israelis and palestinians at its height last week, a palestinian attack outside the synagogue left 7 people dead and provoked white spread condemnation, including from the arab world. a day earlier israeli forces had raided the jeanine refugee camp in the occupied west bank. 10 people died. most of the report it to be government. on a visit to israel, u. s. secretary of state anthony, blinking called on both sides to come tensions and set the 2 state solution was the only way to end but conflict. my guess this week is the head of the palestinian mission to the u. k. or some sub lot. does he believe that's possible? we see no approach to achieve that, but does the palestinian leadership ha

how have they reacted because there is a cost of living crazy happening, you know, around europe. yeah. there is, and this is particularly better in the u. k. where shell is headquartered because of how to particularly acute cost of living crisis that we've seen. energy companies going bust as the government tries to forcibly keep bills down people, but nevertheless, people are really struggling there. the opposition party in britain, referring to shows profits as outrageous and saying that the conservative government richie soon act isn't doing enough. but you k is one of the countries that has introduced a windfall tax on profits for companies. exactly like shell who have benefited from the war there. but it only covers the money that they made in the u. k. we say about 5 percent of their income so shows on cost to pay about a $123000000.00 in when for taxes for last year, but in the face of $40000000000.00 in profits, not huge, wrong business. it themes route. what's the w of is the thank you so much. a suicide bomb attack on a mosque in pakistan this week has left the country security forces unsettled the attack targeted officials pray

u. k as a whole? because there are some saying that this would benefit certain political parties that it would help the cohesiveness as the u. k. where do things stand on that front? well, i think it's too early to tell what i can say and, you know, my own party has had maybe too many leadership elections recently. they, they are brutal things. and i think for the s n p, they're about to embark on and a number of weeks of what is often a divisive leadership election. and i fully expect to the end of that depending on who wins that election. people in the s n p to probably leave that party because they didn't want that leader in place. so i think the union and the majority of people who want to see is state the united kingdom in scotland. i think based certainly. and that the union feels start stronger and safer with nicholas sturgeon assessment. mr. mark, i do have a question for you. i'll get you in just a minute. e and i saw you react to miles. was saying there's, i'm going to give you a chance to jump in r

u. k. and what is going to the e u. but it's thought that the, he, you is charging a lot more in its saxes because of the efficiency of their legislation. but as far as the temperature goes here in the u. k, there's a lot of anger, particularly amongst millions of people who are paying really high energy bills, who are worried about so the withdrawal of some of the subsidies on their bills. and furthermore, a wage claims right across the board with millions of people are going involved in strikes. and on wednesday, the biggest day of a public sector strikes for a decade i, it's been said by the trades union congress. and paul novak the general secretary that these are obscene prophets, and then he says that they're an insult to working families and aid or i to a andrew. it's can leave 11 up and resumes reporting a to lebanese impedes beginning a week to week to have a sit in inside parliament that promising to stay push until a new president elected. after months of political paralysis sent a honda report now from beirut to members of parliament from the so called forces of change block have been camped inside lebanon's par

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we could be see some of the contestation taken out the protocol because ease of a reset to u. k. e u relations post breaks it. yeah, well, i mean, i wanted to talk to you about the reaction in northern ireland. i mean, from the people there from businesses, there is what do you think that's going to be working at the moment that there's a lot of um, documents around people are going through the details. i think they've been of a cautious welcome to the fact that the you can, the you have reached agreement, try resolve the issues, but equally, i think they want time to actually digest the detail and really go through what the documents are saying there. i think amongst the political parties, i think, i think equally a lot of those will say, i hate good that this resolution of the issues here. but i think one, the big concerns is whether the reaction of the democratic unit party, those who are opposed to the protocol, will be one which accepts there's some bins, a decent agreement reached here. and that will then leave and go back into a government involvement. and the jury's out o

u. k. government, which the u. k. government is not going to give because it says that the 1st independence referendum in 2014, which the independence movement last was a once in a lifetime events. so nicholas sturgeon's response to that was to say, okay, what we're going to do then is we're going to make the next general election that they facto independence referendum. the issue with that is not all popular with much of her party who think that it's too divisive and what go down well with the electorate. so much of the senior people in the party want to wait for a new leader to be chosen. who can then take a new strategy forward? for we talent out to sara, edinburgh. lisa sank all have far tear gas to dispose supporters of main opposition leader osmond. sancho sancho was forcibly removed from his car after repeating in a court in the capital darker. he was attending hearings in a defamation case against him. sancho supporters say the legal action and other allegations and attempts to discredit him. i had a presidential elections next year. i me is to amnesty international has issued a preliminary reports on allege

huge rise and energy prices caused by the war and ukraine is climate change because the bytes we will see these impacts on the u. k. food supplies, but also on the u. k is hard pressed farmers who already paying hundreds of millions, millions of pounds extra for fertilizes am for energy because of the price of gas and who are also seeing themselves exposed to the impacts of climate change light. last year's drought and the u. k. face is one of a particular issue. most of the countries vegetables come from the european union, and britons exit from the block has meant extra costs and bureaucracy has added to the strain, especially for perishable goods. the solution food producing organizations say, is the government to give farmers more support. replacing high carbon specializes with low carbon alternatives and focusing on ways to protect against the extremes and whether that up because the new normal. so i go out to 0 london, astronomers in united states have seen evidence of distant galaxies that challenge our understanding of the universe. that's according to a new report and fancy fit, journal nature. current ba

u. k. in years of oblique, economic forecasts being british families are facing unprecedented levels of hardship. you research shows almost 2000000 u. k. children could be trapped in poverty because their parents are unable to work or unable to make enough money to meet the rising cost of living. poverty is defined as household zoning, 60 percent, or less than the national average income of nearly $39000.00. an estimated one in 6 working families are struggling to meet that benchmark life in liverpool, amidst the biggest fall in living standards on record these full time working mothers share their stories because of in crisis. what would that mean to you? it's not that nightmare. it's ridiculous, especially when you're where you're striving to do better. and as i said, i am working on myself. i do wife hours can what the kids are at school because i couldn't even afford chalka before the current cost of living crisis worsened by bricks. it the pandemic and war in ukraine. many people would just about managing. but soaring inflation, energy cost through prices and wage stagnation of left working people reeling. this is what it means to live in a poverty trap. question of her from

u. k. or putting it on a firmer basis for the future. your point is well taken because it's been a long time since we've seen smiles on officials from you in the u. k. meeting to talk about berkshire. that is for sure. professor neal door to we appreciate you taking the time to talk with us tonight. we appreciate your insights. thank you. thank you. oh, are you ably no country in western europe has been more impacted by russia's invasion of ukraine than germany. the war forced germany to win itself from russian oil and natural gas practically overnight. germany also took a lot of fire last year for its cautious approach to supporting ukraine. your machines are all up shoals proclaimed one year ago that there was a new error for the country. we have more now, 5000 helmets. that was the help germany offered ukraine before russia invaded. then moscow attacked. within days, germany reversed its longstanding ban on sending weapons to conflicts owns with a historic speech buffered with the attack on ukraine with entered a new era in keith can he for odessa and maria poll, you

i put the point to people in belfast today to business people today because being within the u. k. single market being within the u. e. using the market, it don't have a privilege position. and so next said that it perhaps was the best economic zone in the world now, because again, he's over selling point. yeah. let me just come back to deal with it because, you know, we talk about opportunities here in terms of opportunities. you know, some people say that sooner cause play to master stroke or even to his cabinet members who are broad breakfast. he is, the secretary said no nyland and also one of the ministers. chris eaten harris and steve baker, part of the e r g group hard wing right wing past the conservative party that you know, was the hard breck that they've actually had disagreements. ok, i'm just wondering about what the status is if the hot right in the conservative policy. if these 2 individuals are reflective of the right wing and under the eeoic g or what the suspects in the parts either. so one of the big debates is how powerful is the e r g hotline? now we saw it re

huge rise and energy prices caused by the war and ukraine is climate change because the bytes we will see these impacts on the u. k. food supplies, but also on the u. k is hard pressed farmers who already paying hundreds of millions, millions of pounds extra for fertilizes am for energy because of the price of gas and who are also seeing themselves exposed to the impacts of climate change like last year's drought. and the u. k. face is one of a particular issue. most of the countries vegetables come from the european union, and britons exit from the block has meant extra costs and bureaucracy has added to the strain, especially for perishable goods. the solution food producing organizations say, is the government to give farmers more support, replacing high carbon fertilizers with low carbon alternative and focusing on ways to protect against the extremes and whether that up because the new normal. so if i go out to 0, london, ah, hello again. the headlines on al jazeera, a senate candidate, and nigeria has been killed by gunman ahead of saturdays election bar. are you sure was a tough on wednesday in the southeas

u. k. could be trapped in poverty and hardship because at least one parent faces a barrier to working or taking on extra work as from $440000.00 children or in poverty despite at least one parent working full time of that number, a quarter of a 1000000 are in poverty, despite living in a household with 2 parents, where both are in full time employment. like all traps, the more people are forced to struggle holding down multiple lo paid jobs 247. or perhaps they can't work because they're full time care is. the more painful the more challenging life becomes, and charities argued that the best way out of this trap is to provide more money for children in need and to lift the current cap on social benefit. what we need the government to do is say we acknowledge that people face barriers to taking on additional work and we need to try and break down those barriers sometimes that might be higher pay. sometimes it might be supporting people in to work where they are able, but sometimes it saying we acknowledge you can work as much as you as much as you're able, as much as ever take to fix, to lift yo

huge rise in energy prices caused by the war and ukraine is climate change because the bytes we will see these impacts on the u. k. food supplies, but also on the u. k. hard pressed farmers who already paying hundreds of millions, millions of pounds extra for fertilizes am for energy because of the price of gas. and.

u. k. i did want to ask you about that burger, because as you say, you cranes been asking for fighter jets. this has been denied so far, but i believe the british defense minister has suggested that that stance could change so. so this announcement that britain will train you crate of ukrainian pilots on nato standards. fighter jets. i mean, it, could this be the stars of the sort of moving in that direction? it could possibly be interpreted as a shift in the west thinking because there is a nervousness to send fighter that jets to the ukraine. so it's very, very contested. now the u. k and partners have relented and that sending battle tanks to the ukraine. that was one big us. but the 2nd one is about the fighter jets. and i think what's interesting is the wording of this statement by downing street. they are saying that they will offer to provide longer range capabilities in order to relieve the pressure on you crazy front line. so they're not saying we are sending fight to jet, but definitely it sounds like a thinking could be changing. budget nasty w, corresponded in london. thank you

u. k. supreme court in november shut the door on a 2nd referendum without the express it go ahead from the u. k. government, which the u. k. government is not going to give because it says that the 1st independence referendum in 2014, which the independence movement last was a once in a lifetime events. so nicholas sturgeon's response to that was to say, okay, what we're going to do then is we're going to make the next general election, they facto independence referendum. the issue with that is not all that popular with much of her party who think that it's too divisive and won't go down well with the electorate. so much of the senior people in the party wants to wait for a need to be chosen. who can then take a new strategy forward for the challenge? how does era edinburgh forensic experts have concluded the chalet and poet and publish ruder, died of poisoning nearly 50 years ago. he was a political opponents of the repressive military regime. and now his family, se they murdered him, there was officially declared to have died from prostate cancer. teresa bo has the story. he was jealous, most renowned osler and nobel laureate, whose love poems are known around

prices caused by the war and ukraine is climate change because the bytes we will see these impacts on the case food supplies, but also on the u. k is hard pressed farmers who already paying hundreds of millions, millions of pounds extra for fertilizes and for energy because of the price of gas and who are also seeing themselves exposed to the impacts of climate change light, last year's drought, and the u. k face is one of a particular issue. most of the countries vegetables come from the european union, and britons exit from the block has meant extra costs and bureaucracy has added to the strain, especially for perishable goods. the solution, food producing organizations say, is the government to give farmers more support. replacing high carbon fertilizes with low carbon alternative and focusing on ways to protect against the extremes and whether that up become the new normal. so the guy, yeah, go out to 0, london will be, will use in house. next it's people and power on ah, talk to 0. we should they not be more oversized perhaps so foundations like yours. we listen when it comes to diversification, we don't do it in order to g

u. k. government, which the u. k. government is not going to give because it says that the 1st independence referendum in 2014, which the independence movement last was a once in a lifetime events. so nicholas sturgeon's response to that was to say, ok, what we're going to do then is we're going to make the next general election that de facto independence referendum. the issue with that is, it's not all popular with much of her party who think that it's too divisive and what go down well with the electorate. so much of the senior people in the party want to wait for a new leader to be chosen. who can then take a new strategy forward for we talents out to sara, edinburgh. of in some being held this, we can north korea to mark the birth date of formulated kim jong l. his death in 2012 lead to kim jong and taking over. now the recent appearance of kim's daughter has fueled speculation about a possible future succession from mcbride reports from sol. kim du, a was 1st introduced to the world accompanying her father, kim jung, and at a missile launch last november. but it was this appearance at a military parade in pyong

u. k. government, which the u. k. government is not going to give because it says that the 1st independence referendum in 2014, which the independence movement last was a once in a lifetime events. so nicholas sturgeon's response to that was to say, ok, what we're going to do then is we're going to make the next general election that de facto independence referendum. the issue with that is, it's not all popular with much of her party who think that it's too divisive and what go down well with the electorate. so much of the senior people in the party want to wait for a new lead to be chosen. who can then take a new strategy forward for we talent out to 0. edinburgh is still ahead here. now does it go support coming up, take over, tool heats up, find out who all the bid is looking to make man united. great. again, details coming ah. with a full oh a all right, let's get onto this board and bid is interested in taking ever mentioned to them. they have less than 12 hours to submit the proposals to be to soft deadlines set by the clubs, america known as the glazer family, reportedly want nearly $6000000000.00 for the clu

u. k. food supplies, but also on the u. k. hard pressed farmers who are already paying $100000000.00 millions of pounds extra for fertilizers, am for energy because of the price of gas and who are also seeing themselves exposed to the impacts of climate change light. last year's drought and the u. k. face is one of a particular issue. most of the countries vegetables come from the european union, and britons exit from the block has much extra costs and bureaucracy has added to the strain, especially for perishable goods. the solution food producing organizations say, is the government to give much more support, replacing high carbon fertilizers with low carbon alternatives and focusing on ways to protect against the extremes and whether that up because the new normal. so if i go out to 0, london. okay, let's finish the program with some great pictures from the arctic circle. this is a place called job mach in sweden. and what you can see, there's some weight orders who've been showing off the news while navigating an ice obstacle course to make it look incredibly easy. ah, this is our desert. these you top stories, least 11 palestinians have been

u. a customs border was drawn between northern ireland and the rest of the united kingdom. that made irish unionists angry because they wanted to stay part of the u . k. under the windsor framework, goods will be separated into a green lane for goods traveling to northern ireland and a redline for goods moving into the e u. o. re challenge as more this deal. if it is going to stick, has to satisfy 2 key political constituencies. one of them is wrecks at hard line as within the conservative party, but perhaps more importantly than them. it also has to satisfy the democratic unionist party here in northern ireland. both of these groups have been fiercely critical of the northern ireland protocols. it has taken months to get to this point on we will not be rushed, will not be pushed into a hasty decision. we want to make the right decision. now until the d u p. all satisfied, then the deal is not a goa. and until do you pay a satisfied this building behind me store months is still politically paralyzed. it's the building where know that on and has its power sharing executives of which the d. u. p. a hoff imes, which they essentially vetoed, walked away

u. k. last year. and we'll do 25 this year. because because the russian or the soviet way of fighting is very ammunition heavy, massive artillery by rogers. and that's never high. we have organized ourselves to fight in the west and in a so, so the british defense secretary is now saying the nato countries back in ukraine against russia were caught flat footed because they didn't anticipate that military action would involve so many bullets. yeah. who knew all the james bond movies had turned to cyber war? so now this guys back in the real world and are running british defense, he's getting a bit of a rude awakening. apparently any saying that nato is taken by surprise to accept that nato secretary general underscored a couple of days ago that this war and ukraine actually started way back in 2014 and not recently because not changed natal. it was just demonstrated the importance of nickel ah, on the how important it has been that the anxious since 2014 nato has some implemented the biggest reinforcements or collected the funds in the